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The Atlantic
Trump’s threats aren’t performative he’s pointing a loaded gun at democracy.
January 5, 2021
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If people “define situations as real, they are real in their consequences,” William Isaac Thomas and Dorothy Swaine Thomas wrote in 1928. That sociological insight often referred to as the Thomas theorem offers the best way to think about this peculiar moment in American politics.
It’s what the “senior Republican official” quoted by
The Washington Post in early November, on how to respond to President Donald Trump’s baseless allegations of electoral fraud, failed to understand. “What is the downside for humoring him for this little bit of time?” the official asked.